Hollywood: Style Center of the World
1940 • Documentary
6 (3)
Oliver Garver
Director
Status
Released
Release date
May 29, 1940
Duration
11 Min
Language
English
Popularity
1.1286
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Overview
This short promotes the premise that movies often create a demand for the fashions seen in them. It starts with a vignette in rural America. A mother and daughter go to town to buy a new dress. In the dress shop window is a designer dress worn by Joan Crawford in a recent movie. We then go to Hollywood and visit Adrian, MGM's chief of costume design, and see how multiple copies of a single clothing pattern are produced. The film ends with short segments of several MGM features.
